From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752783Ab1JQRla (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:41:30 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34625 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957Ab1JQRl3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:41:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9C6886.20600@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:40:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: Borislav Petkov , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Xen Devel , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Tigran Aivazian , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/microcode: support for microcode update in Xen dom0 References: <20111012101615.GA14966@aftab> <4E95D9E7.6090304@zytor.com> <4E95E7FE.6050302@goop.org> <20111012194543.GD14966@aftab> <20111012204048.GA22260@phenom.oracle.com> <4E960746.90805@zytor.com> <20111012214013.GD28723@aftab> <4E96198F.4030906@zytor.com> <20111013073352.GB501@aftab> <20111013095708.GA1862@aftab> <20111017170854.GE19756@phenom.dumpdata.com> In-Reply-To: <20111017170854.GE19756@phenom.dumpdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > You are still using the microcode API (the existing one) to > program the CPUs right? It is just that you are fetching the images > much much earlier than it currently is done? > No, the goal is to ditch the existing API and load the CPUs very early in the start path. -hpa